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6 comments:
Bloody rabbit! I can't stop laughing now.
I had an English teacher that would make the class watch this movie three times in a year, instead of learning grammar or vocabulary.
Then again, he was really "special". He had been so disturbed by the '68 events in Paris (he was a young teacher then, doing his first classes), that he kept on "teaching" while declaring that authority is absurd, grading students a nonsense and that English was old-fashioned and... useless. Pupils were openly playing card during the courses and he would dedicate the first three lessons of the year studying a 20-line dialog of a classic movie, and the rest of the year would be sent in the video class, watching Monty Pythons movies. With French subtitles. He was really sympathetic, but that ain't enough, sometimes, right? I even had two years o his "teaching" that was a bit (22 months) too much.
We called him Mr. J.
Happy Easter to you all! And merry water all over your neck, girls!
That is a fun teacher...for a week I guess.
I am ashamed but I better to confess that my history knowledge is lacking here, what happened in '68 in P, what made him to think this way?
This year at Easter I remembered that we should Allways look on the bright side of life.
But I didn't tell them ;)
And here is the whole script ! A marvel. A catch. You won't go to sleep tonight.
Happy insomniac Easter to you, i.
the English version is great (of course) but I have to confess I prefer the Hungarian...I wonder if it has a transcription as well...
hey tarelle, can you explain to nana what happened in '68 in Paris? I could only recommend a book to her ("Behind a glass wall" from Robert merle) but it is veeeeeery boring.
Yes, sure, "Mai 68" is a very strange event in France, especially in Paris, echoing the social right movements in the United States, but that was very different spirit and origin in Pairs. Pupils and students of Paris universities went on "strike" and revolted against the burden of social convention and against the mental paralysis of the French establishment. History says it sparked off when spring came and on March 22nd, pupils were fed up by having their female classmates sleeping in another building and being forbidden to visit them. Lots of other versions exist and that is where Robert Merle writes a whole book about that day and the whole set of circumstances around those premices. The national archives of French TV, radio, etc only went open last year, giving a whole new material to open perspectives on these origins. But no one cares any more. The truth is people wanted some oxygen in their lives and souls, suffering from widespread authoritarism and wanting to dream about brighter future. But the demands of protesters were unclear, and went in all direction, because there was no real structured thought or ideology to help formulate the claims in a intelligible vocabulary. It was not really a communist or a maoist revolution, it was clearly not about raising wages. It was just that when you were not conforming to the working, grey, silent and docile horizon society fixed to your life, you were considered like a shit, that when you thought something, you couldn't really discuss it, that fathers were always right, bosses always winning, and if you are on Earth, it is for working hard and dying quietly (each time I see a movie, a documentary or whatever about how people behave during that period, I a frightened, really. Sometimes, contemporary Japanese society make me think about that a lot). That was more or less what the youth of that time was fed up with and claim to abolish. A childish, essential, imprecise and very clear case. The whole heart of Paris was under siege by students holding meetings in their universities theatre to decide how to fight against a predominant state of mind, pianos were installed and played in the square of Sorbonne, cars piled up in the adjacent streets, flowers were painted on the wall and Molotov cocktails thrown to squads of military police charging students and other inhabitants of the area. Posters were printed by idealistic printers with mottos about the beauty of life and the cruelty of rules, tyranny and intellectual terrorism were experienced as weel among the dreamers meeting by the organized revolutionary groups that saw an opportunity in that insurrection and wanted to channel the revolt into their long-studied plans of revolution.
Then, workers went on strike, trade unions followed the movement and then they kind of took control of it. They formulated demands in terms of the good old-fashion class struggle (for the revolutionaries) or of wage and work-condition improvement (for the reformists), in terms of death to the system for the anarchists and death to bourgeois culture for the maoists, and death to the super-ego for the psychoanalysts, etc. The whole thing lasted a several weeks, with real insurrections a bit everywhere in France. Bourgeois feared for their belongings and the "order and security". Nations of the world feared for a Red revolution in Paris, settling soviets on the wrong side of the iron curtain. Le Général de Gaulle, then in charge, secretly took refuge in some place still unknown with certainty, and disappeared completely a few days. He came back, repressed the whole thing, lovers of the orders marched on the Champs Elysées to show they wanted tradition and order back and the old system unchanged : no one knew where it cam from or where it could go, so reaction came high in the public opinion. The Général dissolved the Assembly and organized general elections within 30 days to allow a formal expression of that reaction with almost unprecedented victory of Gaullists (as you can expect). But just a year later, he organized a referendum about a minor constitutional subject, only to tell France that voting for that was voting for him. He lost and he quit. The whole society had changed because colours and discussions had flourished everywhere, and not any more exclusively about the question of whether the Marxist revolution was the next step of humanity, or whether hormones were the only ground for a will to change the society.
You can tell I am very biased when telling you all those things, and my knowledge of it is very small, filtered by the things I wanted to read and hear about it. It is a real unidentified object in social history, and everyone understands it differently. Sarkozy declared during the presidential campaign that he wanted to get rid of the 68 heritage, because the praise of laziness and the contestation of authority were the deep reasons for the long-term levels of unemployment and the problems of deficit in the State's budget. (sic!)
So you see : the fight is not over...
Not to leave the last word to this idiotic guy, let me tell you this best condensed illustration about what happened in may 68: In 1789, Parisians took Bastille, and in 68, they recovered their speech: En 89, les Parisiens ont pris la Bastille, en 68, ils ont pris la parole.
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